Nature of oral biopsies; Liaquat university hospital hyperabad

ABSTRACT

Biopsy is the removal of a tissue sample from a living body with the objective of providing the pathologist with a representative, viable specimen for histopathologic interpretation and diagnosis. Objectives: To find out frequency and nature of oral biopsies reported at liaquat university hospital Hyderabad. Design: Descriptive/Cross sectional. Period 1st February 2012 to 31st January 2014 Setting: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. Material and Methods: A total of 180 patients were reported at OPD and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ward of Liaquat University Hospital for oral incisional, excisional and punch biopsy purpose. Study design was descriptive/cross sectional study. All patients were treated both under general anesthesia as well as local anesthesiaandsedation. All the biopsies were sent to histopathology department for confirmation of diagnosis. Results:119 patients [66.1%] were males and 61 patients [33.8%] were females with age range from 10-80 years. Malignancy was diagnosed in 80 patients [44.4%] while odontogenic cysts were diagnosed as second common category with 38 patients [21.1%]. Conclusions: Squamous cell carcinoma was diagnosed as the most common malignant lesion which is rising danger to the society specially as the age advances.